[ SECRET POST #6162 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6162 ⌋

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Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, yes. Demons, vampires, other-dimensional horrors . . . It’s the change of the familiar into the unknown. And I think a lot of people would consider me the unknown. (I’ve always disliked that quote about fear of the unknown being the oldest fear.)

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

"Why are people afraid of predators?"

Regular people: "Because predators kill their prey."

You: "Because predators are the unknown like me!! Clearly this is prejudice!!!!!"

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. Heck, there's plenty of media where things like vampires/demons/werewolves/etc. live among humans and people are only afraid of them when they're, you know, actually killing people.

Re: OP

[meadowphoenix]

well that does explain it! i don't agree that the unknown is the tension. i think the death and/or trauma is the tension.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, those things are scary because they can kill you.

You aren't gonna go into the wilderness and try to befriend bears because they're misunderstood, are you? 'Cause if you do, you will very much die.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

The fear of the unknown as a concept is about hearing a noise in the dark and not knowing what made it or if it's dangerous. The unknown in that context is something that you’re never safe from because it could be or do literally anything. Whatever it is that makes you different, fear of the unknown is not and cannot be about you or people like you.

Now, it's true that othered people often see themselves in fictional monsters, and that accusations of witchcraft/vampirism/etc have historically been levied at the othered. This does not mean every tangible monster in a horror story is inherently about being afraid of people who are different. Sometimes it's about how scary it would be to be faced with something malicious that's much more dangerous than just an animal or just another human.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

And sometimes the malicious horror turns out to be just another human with a mental illness.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

And sometimes another human with a mental illness kills people.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Sure does! But I'd be willing to bet that the percentage of schizophrenic people who brutally murder a bunch of teenagers slasher movie style isn't significantly larger than the general population, and yet.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I'm not saying horror never demonises the mentally ill, but in my experience it's very rare that the eight-foot tall literal monster that tears people apart onscreen turns out to just be some normal person who was doing all that through the power of bipolar or whatever. The type of horror that portrays mental illness irresponsibly usually has the "monster" be perfectly human.